NO219 Chapter Notes -Brie, Animal Communication, John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Journal of english for academic purposes 11 (2012) 145 154. Argument!" helping students understand what essay writing is about. King"s college london, department of education and professional studies, waterloo rd, london se1 9nh, uk a b s t r a c t. Argumentation is a key requirement of the essay, which is the most common genre that students have to write. However, how argumentation is realised in disciplinary writing is often poorly understood by academic tutors, and therefore not adequately taught to students. This paper presents research into undergraduate students" concepts of argument when they arrive at university, dif culties they experience with developing arguments in their essays, and the type and quality of instruction they receive. A three-part de nition which describes argumentation by what students need to learn was used as the framework for analysis. The ndings show that students have only partial or incorrect concepts of argument.
